Assessing & Managing Pain

Provides the principles of chronic pain treatment, lists nonopioid medications, and recommends treatment for common chronic pain conditions.

Helps clinicians better identify the presence of opioid abuse or dependence in patients with chronic pain.

Guides healthcare professionals through an initial assessment of patient pain. Includes diagrams of the human body to help patients locate the pain they experience, as well as questions to prompt the patient to describe the intensity, quality, causes, effects, and contributing factors of the pain.

Assesses the location and severity of pain and its impact on functioning.

Uses a simple prognostic questionnaire to help clinicians identify modifiable risk factors (biomedical, psychological, and social) for back pain disability. Stratifies patients with the resulting score as low, medium, or high risk and matches patients with a treatment package for each category.

Uses a 20-item instrument administered in an interview format to track behaviors characteristic of addiction related to prescription opioid medications in chronic pain populations. The instrument is scored based on participant responses, interviewer observations of displayed behaviors, and information gathered from medical chart review.

Provides a score indicating the severity of dependence on opioids using a 5-item questionnaire.

Uses a 17-item self-assessment to identify patients with chronic pain taking opioids who have indicators of current aberrant drug-related behaviors.

Assesses the risk of opioid abuse and suitability of candidates for long-term opioid therapy in primary care.

Assesses the intensity of pain and the level of interference in normal daily life using a three-item scale.